Typography Tuesday 002: Link Slinging Spectacular

It’s a good thing I started doing this Typo Tuesday thing. (It’s painfully obvious that I haven’t posted since last Tuesday.) It has kept me in a heightened level of “type awareness” over the past week which has given me loads of ideas for some dandy posts that’ll be coming down the pipe. This week, I have a couple of recommended reads and a handful of links:

BOOK: Typography Primer by by Anthony Faiola
This is an introductory text and a very quick read, but it’s incredibly content dense. It includes a very conciseyet comprehensivehistory of the evolution of typography and conventions of its use. It’s a really good resource for filling the gaps in your knowledge of type style and terminology. It’s a little spendy for its size, so you may want to pick it up at your local library. (I did.)

BOOK: The Education of a Typographer by Steven Heller
I absolutely love this book. It’s a compilation of 40 essays by experts and educators from the perspectives of both teaching and learning about typography. Most of the writing is very conversational and is quite like hearing a bunch of short lectures from the authors. Very, very highly recommended.

LINK: Mark Simonson has been posting to his notebook since last January. He’s a designer/illustrator/typographer that I became aware of when I lived in Minneapolis. He does some great work and shares my disdain for acertain font.

LINK: Typeradio, the radio channel on type & design. A Microfm broadcast, a MP3 internet radio stream and a podcast station. The have a nice archive stretching back over the past couple of years that should keep you occupied for a while.

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